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Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights — President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. — The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation …

Web Firms to Adopt ‘No Track’ Button — A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year. — The reversal is being announced as part …

Chinese Court Rejects Injunction Against Apple's iPad — SHANGHAI—A Shanghai court rejected a Chinese company's effort to get a preliminary injunction against the sale of Apple Inc.'s iPad there over a trademark dispute and postponed the hearings pending the results of another case in a Chinese court.

Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley? — Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start my own fund. — Really? I didn't know that! — For the record, I'm not raising a fund. This article is NOT accurate. — But, it sure comes up in conversation a lot.

iPad + Office + Apple + Microsoft: Why It All Makes Sense — In case you missed the craziness this week, Microsoft appears to be making some Office apps for the iPad. Or maybe it's not. Or whatever. MG Siegler has a good wrapup of the nonsense here. — Office for the iPad makes total sense, though.

Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy — The Air Force Special Operations Command canceled its planned acquisition of Apple iPad tablet computers last week, two days after receiving a query from Nextgov about the inclusion of Russian-developed security and documents reader software specified in procurement documents.

Rovio Ownership Structure Revealed — The Finnish Arvopaperi magazine has announced the ownership structure of Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds. The information has not come up in any IPO filing, but through public information in the Finnish governmental registry.

Facebook's Top Cop: Joe Sullivan — Facebook chief of security Joe Sullivan, sitting in front of a display of the bad guys his team has taken down (Photo Credit:Timothy Archibald) — This story appears in the March 12, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. — If Facebook were a country …